Rush-Working Man
Fly By Night-Best I Can
Caress Of Steel-Bastille Day
2112-Overture
A Farewell To Kings-A Farewell To Kings
Hemispheres-La Villa Strangiato
Permanent Waves-Freewill
Moving Pictures-Limelight
Signals-Subdivisions
Grace Under Pressure-don't know it well

Tom Sawyer is quite overrated in my opinion. Good lyrics, but there are songs I prefer on Moving Pictures over that song (everything but Limelight actually). Permanent Waves was my toughest choice, as I love both Spirit of Radio and Natural Science equally. Fly by Night was my easiest choice.

Rush - Here Again: a surprisingly successful attempt at the bluesFly By Night - title track: just edges out By-Tor for the supremely tasteful guitar workCaress of Steel - The Fountain of Lamneth: it's really 6 songs stuck together into a suite, and if I had to pick one of them it would be No One at the Bridge; Geddy's voice is amazing on that one.2112 - title track: just so emotionally raw and poignantA Farewell to Kings - Xanadu: one of their best 70's tracks, with some simple but profound lyricsHemispheres - title track: compositionally one of their strongest songs everPermanent Waves - Freewill: stupid lyrics but builds up to a brilliant climax in such an incredible fashion that I can't not pick it. I would go for Natural Science, though, if the version on the album had sounded like the Different Stages renditionMoving Pictures - YYZ: high-energy, tight, and intricateSignals - Chemistry: Alex absolutely rips it upGrace Under Pressure - Distant Early Warning: can barely decide between that and Red Sector A, but DEW wins because it just might be the definitive Rush song.

Rush - Here Again: a surprisingly successful attempt at the bluesFly By Night - title track: just edges out By-Tor for the supremely tasteful guitar workCaress of Steel - The Fountain of Lamneth: it's really 6 songs stuck together into a suite, and if I had to pick one of them it would be No One at the Bridge; Geddy's voice is amazing on that one.2112 - title track: just so emotionally raw and poignantA Farewell to Kings - Xanadu: one of their best 70's tracks, with some simple but profound lyricsHemispheres - title track: compositionally one of their strongest songs everPermanent Waves - Freewill: stupid lyrics but builds up to a brilliant climax in such an incredible fashion that I can't not pick it. I would go for Natural Science, though, if the version on the album had sounded like the Different Stages renditionMoving Pictures - YYZ: high-energy, tight, and intricateSignals - Chemistry: Alex absolutely rips it upGrace Under Pressure - Distant Early Warning: can barely decide between that and Red Sector A, but DEW wins because it just might be the definitive Rush song.

Oh DEW is definitely worth mentioning, and I agree that Natural Science is a gem from Different stages but not so much on the studio version

Rush - Here Again: a surprisingly successful attempt at the bluesFly By Night - title track: just edges out By-Tor for the supremely tasteful guitar workCaress of Steel - The Fountain of Lamneth: it's really 6 songs stuck together into a suite, and if I had to pick one of them it would be No One at the Bridge; Geddy's voice is amazing on that one.2112 - title track: just so emotionally raw and poignantA Farewell to Kings - Xanadu: one of their best 70's tracks, with some simple but profound lyricsHemispheres - title track: compositionally one of their strongest songs everPermanent Waves - Freewill: stupid lyrics but builds up to a brilliant climax in such an incredible fashion that I can't not pick it. I would go for Natural Science, though, if the version on the album had sounded like the Different Stages renditionMoving Pictures - YYZ: high-energy, tight, and intricateSignals - Chemistry: Alex absolutely rips it upGrace Under Pressure - Distant Early Warning: can barely decide between that and Red Sector A, but DEW wins because it just might be the definitive Rush song.

Oh DEW is definitely worth mentioning, and I agree that Natural Science is a gem from Different stages but not so much on the studio version

I love both versions, but the arrangement on the live version is far superior, and the full sound and energy behind it elevate it far above the comparatively dry studio version. It's actually a very harmonically and melodically simple song, so the extra "oomph" on the live version helps to bulk it up a bit.

Rush - Here Again: a surprisingly successful attempt at the bluesFly By Night - title track: just edges out By-Tor for the supremely tasteful guitar workCaress of Steel - The Fountain of Lamneth: it's really 6 songs stuck together into a suite, and if I had to pick one of them it would be No One at the Bridge; Geddy's voice is amazing on that one.2112 - title track: just so emotionally raw and poignantA Farewell to Kings - Xanadu: one of their best 70's tracks, with some simple but profound lyricsHemispheres - title track: compositionally one of their strongest songs everPermanent Waves - Freewill: stupid lyrics but builds up to a brilliant climax in such an incredible fashion that I can't not pick it. I would go for Natural Science, though, if the version on the album had sounded like the Different Stages renditionMoving Pictures - YYZ: high-energy, tight, and intricateSignals - Chemistry: Alex absolutely rips it upGrace Under Pressure - Distant Early Warning: can barely decide between that and Red Sector A, but DEW wins because it just might be the definitive Rush song.

Oh DEW is definitely worth mentioning, and I agree that Natural Science is a gem from Different stages but not so much on the studio version

I love both versions, but the arrangement on the live version is far superior, and the full sound and energy behind it elevate it far above the comparatively dry studio version. It's actually a very harmonically and melodically simple song, so the extra "oomph" on the live version helps to bulk it up a bit.

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